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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]99 percent of the people opining on this have absolutely no idea what actually went down.  (Much like the banh mi story that conservatives freaked out about, which turned out to be completely anodyne and unremarkable.)  Oberlin is a very good school that produces some amazing graduates.  The fact that the administration mishandled some aspects of the lawsuit isn't even newsworthy except to conservatives trying to cherry-pick examples of a preset narrative.  It's not going to hurt employment prospects for grads, because most employers DO NOT CARE about stupid crap like this.     [/quote]

The school was wrong, refuses to pay, and practically put a hard working community family out of business - WTH kind of moral ground is that?? [/quote]

Exhibit A of how people just want to get outraged about something they don't really know the details of, exaggeration and making a complex situation black-and-white because nuance is hard and boring.  There were [b]real First Amendment issues at play about holding institutions liable for the actions of others[/b] and finding that opinions (including statements like "X is racist"), constitute actionable defamation.  I'm pretty sure that Oberlin has legal counsel and is consulting with them, and I'm equally sure that anyone still using the term "woke" has a conservative agenda.  [/quote]

This is a misrepresentation of the case. The Court found that members of the Oberlin Administration used school resources to support the protests and boycott, and the college itself broke off a long-standing business relationship with the bakery in an attempt to put them out of business. The college not only retained and failed to discipline the administrator involved, when she recently left for a higher position at another university, they praised her as a “much loved” faculty member. Two owners of the bakery have died since the case began and the Oberlin Board continues to authorize appeals in a clear attempt to drag out the litigation to outlast the resources of the family. This is a university that is supposed to be teaching ethics to a younger generation?[/quote]

Precisely this.  Oberlin is a prime example of how NOT to treat others.  Terrible example for their students.[/quote]

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